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HOW TO: How to Refile a 1040 Return as a 1040-NR Return
A common scenario among our readers and students who have encountered and learned our materials is a desire to refile previous 1040 tax returns filed as a “U.S. person” to transition them to a “nonresident alien” return. This article will provide authorities on how to do that. If you accidentally filed a Form 1040 as…
Read MoreDEFINITIONS: “Weaponization of Government”
The process by which a classically governmental function is abused as a method to destroy or war against private rights, private property, common law remedies, constitutional remedies, or even personal choice and autonomy. The PERPETRATOR we call the RECRUITER and the VICTIM we call the PEON, VASSAL, and SLAVE. We describe the HAZARDS of participating…
Read MoreLawfully Avoiding Backup Withholding under 26 U.S.C. §3406
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Introduction Those American Nationals who claim to be “nonresident aliens” not engaged in a “trade or business” are sometimes subjected to unlawful backup withholding by ignorant financial institutions and private employers who refuse to read and obey the law as written. This section will provide tools and procedures to fight such…
Read MoreChat GPT 3.5: Is a purely contractual franchise a governmental act in a classical sense or a PRIVATE act?
INTRODUCTION: This interchange demonstrates the following: No provision in IRC for election of a particular status is necessary. Today, the “United States person” tax status can be functionally defined in terms of its benefits (such as entitlement to standard deduction, or entitlement to take certain personal itemized deductions not available to a nonresident alien). Acceptance…
Read MoreBlack’s Law Dictionary Capitulates with Us and Defines “U.S. Citizen” as a “national”!
SOURCE: https://sedm.org/blacks-law-dictionary-capitulates-with-us-and-defines-u-s-citizen-as-a-national/ Black’s Law Dictionary 11th Edition, p. 1853 now adds a DECEPTIVE definition of “U.S. citizen” and agrees PARTIALLY with us on its definition: The above: HOWEVER, nowhere in Title 8 of the U.S. Code is a CONSTITUTIONAL or Fourteenth Amendment or “national of the United States*** OF AMERICA” even MENTIONED. Under the rules…
Read MorePROOF OF FACTS: Government Style Manual “state”
The U.S. Government Style Manual, 2016 Edition, on p. 32 says the following: So a LOWER CASE “state” refers to a LEGISLATIVELY FOREIGN state. This is entirely consistent with the capitalization conventions listed in: Sources of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, FTSIGhttps://ftsig.org/civil-political-jurisdiction/sources-of-extraterritorial-civil-jurisdiction/ You can find the above manual at: Style Manual, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2016govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2016/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2016.pdf
Read MoreForeign Person Reporting and Withholding Summary
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. INTRODUCTION This article addresses “foreign person” reporting and withholding, which means anyone who does not CONSENT to the privileged civil status of “U.S. person”, INCLUDING American Nationals wishing to remain foreign. 2. TYPES OF FOREIGN PERSONS # Name Nationality Described but not defined in IdentifyingNumber Type of“Foreign person”? Symbol 1 Nonresident…
Read MoreDEFINITIONS: “Separation of Powers”
“This constitutionally mandated division of authority was adopted by the framers to ensure protection of our fundamental liberties”. Gregory V. Ashcroft, 501 US 452, 458 (1991) “just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the federal government serves to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance…
Read MoreDEFINITIONS: “Private”
“Neither branch of the legislative department , still less any merely administrative body, established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup.…
Read MoreDEFINITIONS: “Uniformity”
“Mr. Justice Miller, in his lectures on the constitution, 1889-1890 (pages 240, 241), said of taxes levied by congress: ‘The tax must be uniform on the particular article; and it is uniform, within the meaning of the constitutional requirement, if it is made to bear the same percentage over all the United States. That is…
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